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Restoring Puerto Rico through Entrepreneurship

Published Dec 07, 2017
by Pola Firestone

Not even a year after its launch, Colmena66 in Puerto Rico is rethinking and recalibrating what entrepreneurship means to a community.

Devastated by Hurricane María, Puerto Rico is eager for solutions to help the country rebuild its infrastructure and its economy—and Colmena66 is at the center, doing what they do best: connecting resource and entrepreneurs to empower a community.

At the heart of Puerto Rico’s entrepreneurial infrastructure and ecosystem, Colmena66 connects entrepreneurs and small businesses to the resources they need to scale and grow their business—and there’s no time where that has been more important than now, in the wake of and recovery of Hurricane María.

Yes, Puerto Rico is in a time of change amid chaos—and as economic developers know full well, entrepreneurs, those natural problem solvers and risk takers, will be critical and vital to helping the rebuild of Puerto Rico’s businesses, economy and even the island itself.

We encourage you to share the Shop + Hire Puerto Rico local campaign and contribute to the reconstruction, boost economic development and help businesses recover from the aftermath of Hurricane María.

Entrepreneurs can do amazing things, transforming communities and economies, but they can only do it with the help of customers like you. #ShopandHirePuertoRico

Pola Firestone is the relationship manager and affiliate liaison for SourceLink. Through her outreach work, she has a window into the challenges of building entrepreneurial ecosystems, and uses that knowledge to help inform new products and solutions to the SourceLink network

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